Georges Méliès and the Magic of 'Hugo'

The first time I crossed paths with French filmmaker Georges Méliès was at the age of eleven, while watching a music video by the Smashing Pumpkins. It was for the song 'Tonight Tonight,' where a couple travels to the Moon, gets attacked and kidnapped by a group of aliens, escapes via rocket ship and then crashes into the sea. At the end, a boat sails by with the words S.S. Méliès on the side.